only caught that last few intense moments of
visages d'enfants but i liked what i saw.
Fleur de Lys SF: yum, serious yum, for both carnivores and vegetarians.
albert brooks
real life on tcm @8. followed by best in show and spinal tap aka mockumentary night. was actually underwhelmed by brooks modern romance when i saw it recently. havent seen this one afaik.
ana marie cox continues to claw her way to the top of the tower of babelsphere. here shes filling in on air america radio.
Louie CK in Baghdad Scroll way down past all the pictures (except the last) to see his description of the comedy routine and aftermath. Awesome.
Yikes:
Time Warner moves forward with tiered bandwidth pricing. I actually don't mind paying by the bit if they would charge anywhere close to market bandwidth prices. But $1 per GB when you go over your (very limited) cap? Are they serious? And the cap on the biggest tier is 40 GB per month?
Of course, if there is no price collusion, this means that the telecos should be able to wipe them out of the game with DSL. But we'll see how that works. Depending on AT&T to save us seems like a risky bet.
Long and technical, but I think this gets at the heart of it:
AIG: before CDS there was Reinsurance. Shorter version: AIG wasn't mismanaged, and they didn't merely "assume too much risk"; AIG was a criminal enterprise.
I am so mad about all of this. I actually feel more helpless now then in the run up to the Iraq war. At least war is something people can sort of understand. Credit default swaps are not going to be groked by the general public. The Obama administration is obviously in the pocket of the financial sector (could it be otherwise?) And nothing is going to be done about the largest theft in the history of the world. The measly two trillion or so we wasted in Iraq is nothing compared to this.
paging Jim B: the future is
here
mark bowden on pinch sulzberger in vanity fair
was shamed into admitting that id never heard of
phantom of the paradise. ill just suggest at first blush it doesnt seem of a particular type that would necessarily interest me. but what do i know.
never heard of this but worth a look tonight on hbo2,
Shadow of the Vampire.
Premised on the notion that F.W. Murnau's silent horror classic Nosferatu was actually a documentary, Shadow of the Vampire manages to turn a highly dubious concept into a subtle and deliciously mordant comedy.
proof positive that
computer science depts are no longer the domain of asexual geeks.
if only i had something handy and absorbent to clean up this
blood.